Broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill on learning to speak again. Plus Katie Price talks about her son Harvey.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Clemency Burton-Hill gives her first broadcast interview to Emma Barnett since she suffered a brain haemorrhage a year ago. She talks about how music has helped her ongoing recovery, and how she has learnt to speak again.
Sindiso Khumalo & Dr Christine Checinska on the V&A museum's African fashion exhibition,
Plus Katie Price on her son Harvey who was born with Septo-optic Dysplasia, a rare disorder that affects brain function. Her family have lived their lives in the public eye for more than 15 years - and now in a new BBC One documentary, we see her having to make tough decisions about his future as he turns 18.
There’s been a surge in calls to domestic abuse services in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home together - the majority of calls coming from women. For many victims and survivors, work is usually a place of respite. We hear from Business Minister Paul Scully who's written to employers urging them to be a bridge between their workers, spot domestic abuse and offer the support they need.
And the lives of Irish women in the US in 19th and why they were called Bad Bridgets
Presenter Anita Rani Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Anita here, welcoming you to today's Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:08.3 | On the program today, we'll be discussing why talking about money |
| 0:12.0 | is still such a taboo subject among women. Katie Price tells us about her son Harvey |
| 0:17.3 | and the difficulties of parenting a young adult with special needs. |
| 0:20.7 | If he gets agitated, he might bang a hole in the wall or |
| 0:25.2 | and then hear what the bed. I mean, these are all |
| 0:28.1 | cons of stuff that I haven't really spoke about. But obviously in a documentary, |
| 0:31.7 | I wanted to do like a real factual what it's like behind the scenes. |
| 0:37.1 | We'll hear about the women who left their homes in Ireland for a new start in America |
| 0:41.8 | only to fall into a life of crime. And African fashion, the women behind making |
| 0:47.0 | traditional garments more functional. She put a zipper in the Nigerian |
| 0:51.8 | era, which is a kind of a wrap skirt, which is the way that I describe it. |
| 0:56.0 | And when we spoke to her, she said, well, it's just not using women's time appropriately. |
| 1:00.8 | If you've got to your in an office and you've got to keep retying your |
| 1:04.4 | era, so she put a zipper in the era and made it more wearable, |
| 1:07.9 | more useful to women on the go. And we'll find out how you might be able to help the VNA |
| 1:12.8 | with a new exhibition. But first, a year ago, Clemancy Burton Hill, |
| 1:17.7 | an ex-BBC presenter now living in New York, was at work when suddenly her speech started |
| 1:23.1 | slurring and she collapsed. She was rushed to the Brooklyn Hospital Centre, where an |
| 1:27.5 | emergency scan revealed a bleed in her left front or lobe. She was only 39. She was having a massive |
| 1:34.4 | brain hemorrhage. She came out of her coma after 17 days, but had lost the ability to speak. |
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